(Teleborsa) – Webuilda big Italian construction and engineering company, has delivered the first section of the railway doubling between the stations of Catania Bicocca and Catenanuova, created in Sicily by Webuild on behalf of RFI, the lead company of the Infrastructure Hub of the FS Group. The overall project, which has reached 83% of the works, will allow an increase in trains in transit safely, reducing travel times.
Once the work is completed, capacity on the line will increase and trains will be able to run at one maximum speed of 160km/h, compared to the current 100km/h which on some routes today is even reduced to 80-90km/h. Travel time along this route will thus decrease from 25 to 17 minutes.
The 11.5 km section was completed in compliance with the accelerated work execution program signed in June 2023 with RFI, which aims to bring forward the complete activation of the railway doubling from February 2026 to February 2025. The activation of this section, the first in the Palermo-Catania-Messina route, will allow full use of the double track in the approximately 38 km that connect the Catenanuova station, in the province of Enna, to the Catania “Bicocca” station.
